One of the first bands I saw this year at Sap­pyFest was The Har­bour­coats, the still-sorta-new-because-they’re-relatively-unknown band led by Bry Webb from the Con­stan­tines. It was a really nice way to kick off the fes­ti­val and def­i­nitely had me hum­ming the songs to myself all week­end. This wasn’t my first time see­ing Bry play­ing away from his reg­u­lar gig — I remem­ber hear­ing at least one of these songs when he did a set at the Three Gut Records 5th anniver­sary party years and years ago at the Tran­zac, and I’ve sub­se­quently seen him play on a few other occa­sions lead­ing up to last Fri­day. Join­ing him this time ’round was Mike Feuer­stack (aka Snail­house) and my old pal Jonas Bon­netta (aka Evening Hymns). The songs were sub­tle and majes­tic, show­cas­ing Bry’s pow­er­ful voice in a whole new way. I’m super excited to hear their forth­com­ing record, too bad no one knows when it’s com­ing out. Maybe I should look into get­ting that Con­stan­tines acoustic EP they put out a few months back to hold me over. Which reminds me: if any­one from Arts & Crafts is read­ing this, can you please press it to 10″ vinyl and send me a copy? What’s with this digital-only foolishness?

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